Hello, there! Most of your questions are answered on the survey page[1][2].
The first announcement[3] was an invitation for feedback on the new format.
On October 17, the official decision was made[4] on what projects to serve,
and the position has not changed since. We posted the update on Meta-Wiki,
although we did not update this mailing list (and, for that, we apologize).
This thread was initiated to announce that the proposal phase has begun.
Stewards and global sysops do help out smaller wikis, Yet, if we were to
permit global wishes, they would again dominate the survey and undermine
our goal of answering to the smaller communities, who, up until now, had
little chance of getting something out of the survey. WMF also has some
dedicated resources for stewards, as is the case with Commons and Wikidata.
We wanted to fill in the gaps in cases where no resources exist. We hope
you understand why this decision was made, and keep in mind this format is
an experiment and next year we'll likely return to the broader community.
[1]
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 3:29 AM Benjamin Ikuta <benjaminikuta(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I would also like to see an answer to this.
On Oct 23, 2019, at 4:59 AM, AntiCompositeNumber <
anticompositenumber(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Furthermore, requests that "generally target
all wikis" are also now
excluded. Does that mean that requests relating to the work of stewards
and
global sysops, who do much of the work on small
wikis, are also excluded?
On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 07:53 AntiCompositeNumber <
anticompositenumber(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> The additional exclusion of Commons and Wikidata was not previously
> announced. In fact, the previous statement excluding Wikipedias
explicitly
> stated that wishlist items from Commons and
Wikidata would still be
> accepted.
>
> Could you explain the reason for this change and why it wasn't
> communicated earlier?
>
> Regards
> AntiComposite
>
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 18:08 Ilana Fried <ifried(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> The 2020 Community Wishlist Survey
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020> is
now
>> open! This survey is the process where
communities decide what the
>> Community
>> Tech <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech> team should
work on
>> over the next year. We encourage everyone
to submit proposals until the
>> deadline on November 11, or comment on other proposals to help make
them
>> better. To submit proposals, you can
check out the guidelines on the
>> survey
>> page
>> <
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020#Guidelines
>>> .
>> This year, we’ll only be accepting wishes for non-Wikipedia content
>> projects with no dedicated teams (i.e., Wikibooks, Wiktionary,
Wikiquote,
>> Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies,
Wikivoyage, and Wikinews). To
learn
>> more about the new format, we invite you
to visit the survey page
>> <
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020#New_format_f…
> .
Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!
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